How do you make your signature automatically appear every time?

That's my question. Is there a way to just have it automatically show up? Or do I have to check the box every time?

The correct answer is Never Do This.

Signatures suck and so do image signatures

I only give my signature when I don't know if a poster is joking/being sarcastic.

You all are a strange lot aren't you? With your strange conventions and predispositions. That's ok. I show my signature every time for news and website updates. It's two lines of text so it's not too busy to look at.

General concensus appears to be that I am just better off not doing this. Oh well. I'll just save it for special occasions.

I used to like small signatures until I went to a site where massive, over bloated sig were allowed. Awful.

Never again. Never forget.

I only use my signatures in my blog posts.

sigs are so last decade

HavoX said:

sigs are so last decade

Agreed.

As a designer I used to be obsessed with having the best looking signature I could make. Now I guess I've grown up and realize it does nothing but piss everyone off.

HavoX said:

sigs are so last decade

trace is so last decade now

I wonder if I have a signature...

I don't even know if I have a signature.

EDIT: apparently I don't.

Linguica said:

The correct answer is Never Do This.

TheCupboard said:

Signatures suck and so do image signatures

Yep.

Why not just disable signatures altogether like ZDoom's forums?

I thought ZDoom had sigs. No more?

Clonehunter said:

I thought ZDoom had sigs. No more?

I don't think they've ever allowed signatures on ZDF, as least not in the time since I started lurking there.

My favourite part is the note that "only registered users may have signatures". A throwback to those more innocent times before spambots, when it was common for forums to allow anonymous posting.

TraceOfSpades said:

That's my question. Is there a way to just have it automatically show up? Or do I have to check the box every time?

I just check the box any time. I need people to see my links. I'll probably delete the stupid rant while at it, so you can't call me out…

SIGNATURE CHECK!

EDIT: I haz no sig :(
(Actually I probably coulda just checked my profile but ehhhh)

I really don't mind signatures when they're only one line. The fill up the otherwise empty blue space beneath people's one line posts.

People with links to their cool stuff as long as it's not an eyesore are ok

Clonehunter said:

I used to like small signatures until I went to a site where massive, over bloated sig were allowed. Awful.

That's why .signature file was recommended to be 4 lines max in the good old days (Usenet). Back then people actually tended to follow netiquette rules like that. People who didn't were mocked or flamed.
Even in the BBS days (including FidoNet), the tagline was typically just one line.

I would use mine to advert DM servers but checking it everytime is annoying just because some people can't live without sharing giant memes in every post.

Low key sigs are the thing. I hate very tall or image signatures, even more if a forum allows multiple IMGs in it.

Glaice said:

Low key sigs are the thing. I hate very tall or image signatures, even more if a forum allows multiple IMGs in it.

Yea, here's another terrifyingly bad one, on yourewinner.com.

Even worse if they're animated.

I used to think big signature with images were cool when I was a kid.
Also, if you don't like signatures you can disable them via options.

Glaice said:

Even worse if they're animated.

Yea, about the yourewinner.com one; they were both animated.

hex11 said:

That's why .signature file was recommended to be 4 lines max in the good old days (Usenet). Back then people actually tended to follow netiquette rules like that. People who didn't were mocked or flamed.
Even in the BBS days (including FidoNet), the tagline was typically just one line.

And still people I knew personally had huge sigs, just to piss people off. The biggest one I saw was over 50 lines unironically. I know of the "joke one" that people passed around for laughs, but some people honestly didn't know how to stop.

Someone once put huge pornographic images in their signature in a forum for kids and teenagers, ever since, you needed to had an amount of posts before you could have a signature.